December activity programming has a particular shape: familiar songs, familiar smells, familiar words. A Christmas word search works because the vocabulary itself does the reminiscing (MISTLETOE, CAROLS, SLEIGH), and finding a known word in a grid is a small, reliable win that doesn’t depend on recalling anything new. The list below keeps to the season’s furniture rather than any one tradition’s liturgy, so it prints comfortably for a mixed room.
The grid is already at large-print size. For bedside tables and dim common rooms, open it in the maker and push the type toward 48pt. The page caption will tell you honestly if a size stops fitting on one sheet.
| S | I | V | E | T | X | E | G | I | E | I | S |
| T | U | U | S | I | L | I | A | I | U | W | R |
| O | N | S | E | N | E | E | R | U | R | I | E |
| C | I | H | L | S | Y | O | L | F | B | A | I |
| K | I | O | T | E | N | T | A | O | D | I | N |
| I | C | L | R | L | I | S | N | H | W | V | D |
| N | A | L | O | N | V | G | D | R | R | E | E |
| G | R | Y | J | B | A | I | H | N | Y | E | E |
| E | O | A | N | E | A | M | I | T | O | N | R |
| L | L | M | I | S | T | L | E | T | O | E | O |
| A | S | I | E | T | Y | E | O | N | R | L | L |
| N | E | I | E | E | A | E | J | O | T | I | R |
- NOEL
- HOLLY
- SLEIGH
- REINDEER
- GARLAND
- MISTLETOE
- ORNAMENT
- TINSEL
- CAROLS
- STOCKING
Open this puzzle in the maker Start from a blank word search
Running weekly sessions through Advent? Save the link from Copy link in the maker to reprint this exact puzzle any time, or shuffle the layout for a fresh grid from the same ten words. One click in the maker, and the answer key always starts on its own page.
Printing it well
Use the browser’s print dialog straight from the maker. Letter and A4 are laid out separately, and the caption under the preview reports the final type size honestly. For the full checklist, including how set codes work for each puzzle type, see print tips. This page’s set code is christmas-lp-1, which pins the letter arrangement, not your word list, so Copy link in the maker is what actually reproduces this puzzle.
More seasonal puzzles
Also ready to print: the Halloween Word Search and the Thanksgiving Word Search. Or open the word search maker: twenty-one themes from Birds to Sixties Music, or any word list you paste.